The Maxim Institute thinktank have a new paper out on how to measure poverty – and it endorses the idea that people need to be able to participate in society, not just survive, if they are to be deemed to have escaped poverty. This is significant because ‘participation’ can be such a dividing line in…

The Reserve Bank has just published a revised set of its household balance sheets – how much New Zealand households own and owe. The data is significant because it includes for the first time some things like how much households have invested in businesses that aren’t listed on the stock exchange. The result of the…